... I read and loved McBride's Ford bio when it came out, so I'm probably just not remembering. In any case, thanks for the info. ... Would you say that the...
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hotlove666
Jun 21, 2003 12:14 am
Vietnam, Vietnam is a documentary Ford supervised for the Army but didn't sign. Tag Gallagher describes it in his book and analyzes its Fordian qualities; so...
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peter_tonguette
Jun 20, 2003 11:55 pm
I agree with Bill's useful distinction between "home-made" and "hand-made." I think Rosenbaum coined the "home-made" term specifically in reference to a few...
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hotlove666
Jun 20, 2003 6:49 pm
Actually, Clown and even Wind aren't really home-made (Jonathan Rosenbaum's term) -- there were crews, script supervisors, producers, stars, locations; but...
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peter_tonguette
Jun 20, 2003 6:12 pm
... That was a lovely moment. In regards to Kubrick, I assume people are familiar with the story about the night SK stopped by Lewis's editing suites, around...
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hotlove666
Jun 20, 2003 3:31 pm
Greg used to say that the fact that Bazin chose Wyler as his main example proved that his theories were wrong. One more piece of Jerriana: That's Life. The...
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Dan Sallitt
sallitt1
Jun 20, 2003 5:39 am
... I guess my favorite is DODSWORTH, but I saw a real sleeper during the Wyler fest: HER FIRST MATE, a lowly Slim Summerville comedy that was several notches...
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Damien Bona
damienbona
Jun 20, 2003 2:51 am
First of all, let me introduce myself to those of you who don't know me. I'm Damien Bona and I first heard of this site from Zach, with whom I've friends for...
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peter_tonguette
Jun 19, 2003 7:44 pm
... This would be wonderful, Gabe. Thank you! ... "Smorgasbord" is just the alternate title for "Cracking Up," right? I love "Cracking Up." Peter ...
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peter_tonguette
Jun 19, 2003 7:41 pm
... I am almost completely unfamiliar with Wyler's '30s work, but I was very impressed by "The Best Years of Our Lives" and "The Heiress" when I saw each on ...
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Jaime N. Christley
j_christley
Jun 19, 2003 7:33 pm
... Jaime. ... has ... would ... doing ... I am literally bowing right now. That's the funniest thing I've read since Fred's response to thanksbud re: the...
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Jaime N. Christley
j_christley
Jun 19, 2003 7:30 pm
... Do you know anything about this one: http://us.imdb.com/Details?0220557 ?...
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Gabe Klinger
gcklinger
Jun 19, 2003 7:29 pm
I think Kubrick wanted to cast Lewis in the Shelley Duvall role, Jaime. Like the scene when Jack is chopping through the door and Duvall has her head pressed...
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Gabe Klinger
gcklinger
Jun 19, 2003 7:23 pm
... BOY? It's absolutely genius! This is like 10 minutes long but if anyone wants to see it I'll run off a tape (when I get my VCRs back from Rochester). Lewis...
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Jaime N. Christley
j_christley
Jun 19, 2003 7:20 pm
... just as ... Otherwise, ... Whatever, I think it would be awesome. I don't mean far out, I mean awesome. Awesome. Oh yeah, the TV special, please answer...
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Gabe Klinger
gcklinger
Jun 19, 2003 7:02 pm
... The scene when Nicholson interviews for the position would work just as well with Jerry. ("I got the job? You *really* mean it!?") Otherwise, no. No. I...
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peter_tonguette
Jun 19, 2003 7:01 pm
... Well, you make it sound positively fascinating, Gabe. Seriously. What do you (or anyone else) know about this late Lewis short film? ...
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peter_tonguette
Jun 19, 2003 6:53 pm
... I also think of a number of sequences in "Summer of '42": Dorothy saying good-bye to her husband on the dock by the water, for example. ... This is a...
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Jaime N. Christley
j_christley
Jun 19, 2003 3:30 pm
... That's my take on him, too. If I had to do the recent Wyler series over again, I would have skipped THE LITTLE FOXES and (gah) BEN-HUR in favor of more...
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Dan Sallitt
sallitt1
Jun 19, 2003 2:45 pm
... HELL'S HEROES is good, actually. Opinions vary greatly on Wyler - mine is that he's sort of stodgy after, say, 1936, but that his early period is worth...
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Jaime N. Christley
j_christley
Jun 19, 2003 7:01 am
... auterist's ... One of my big problems with HALLOWEEN is that, unlike the other Carpenter stuff I like/love, I don't feel the director has anything else on...
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Joseph Kaufman
joka13us
Jun 19, 2003 6:56 am
... Perhaps for this group we ought to distinguish between an auterist's approach - John Carpenter (I think most people here would classify him as one) and a...
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Gabe Klinger
gcklinger
Jun 19, 2003 6:54 am
Sorry that this is Chicago-centric but series like these are rare nowadays and I thought it would be worth mentioning: Marty Rubin at Chicago's Film Center has...
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Jaime N. Christley
j_christley
Jun 19, 2003 6:50 am
... CLOWN ... What was the name of the program? If it comes on again I'd like to tape it. Was it the same one that just aired on E! ? Probably not, since...
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Gabe Klinger
gcklinger
Jun 19, 2003 6:32 am
What I want to know is who licensed the footage from THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED to Lifetime for their Lewis special? Where did that shit come from and where can I...
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Dan Sallitt
sallitt1
Jun 19, 2003 6:26 am
... Howdy, Joe. I don't mean to imply that my little idea has to do with the thematic structure of any horror film, much less all of them. I do think that it...
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Joseph Kaufman
joka13us
Jun 19, 2003 6:13 am
... I hesitate to try to speak for John Carpenter, but I think that his take was that the theme is repression, that Michael Myers is the ultimate case of...
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hotlove666
Jun 19, 2003 5:52 am
I know one director who "just wants to make westerns," for tv - with a horror twist, whenever he gets the chance: P. J. Pesce....
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hotlove666
Jun 19, 2003 5:46 am
All Hitchcocks make the cut, but that one was such a huge hit that I omitted it to focus on the really off-the-chart work. Re-see When a Stranger Calls, Dan -...
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Jaime N. Christley
j_christley
Jun 19, 2003 5:35 am
... have a ... genre ... routine ... artistic ... event, ... okay ... The industry seems to have reached a kind of equilibrium where they don't mind making...
